Word: balsam
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...linseed oil from less than 9½? to 10? per lb., wool from 92? to $1.01 per lb. In London, where one can speculate in dried flies and ant eggs, an all-time high was set for copra. The New York Journal of Commerce reported a rise in balsam copaiba, a tight market in gum benzoin and "no sign of any relief in the shortage of eucalyptus...
...made $100,000 that year. In Portland, Me. people still talk about old Edward K. Chapman, who was for years a towering figure in the Christmas tree trade, although he never gave a Christmas present in all his life. Bearded as snowily as Santa Claus and a lover of balsam firs, Dealer Chapman tramped into Maine's woods each winter to oversee the selection and cutting of fine trees even in his 80's. In those days Maine supplied about half the trees sold in the U. S. Eastern dealers now get their best trees from Nova Scotia...
...went to Chicago from the East. Now more than half of them go from Montana and Washington, with a sprinkling of what Chicago Christmas tree merchants call "garbage" from the cut-over land of Michigan and Wisconsin. As in the East, the favorite tree is the luxuriant and fragrant balsam fir, with spruce, still considered the only real Christmas tree in the South, a bad second. Exclusive with Gust Relias are colored Christmas trees, sprayed green or silver at his shipping point, Eureka, Mont...
...scramble for the covered orchids et al, it would occasion little surprise if the boy and girl who play Pip and Esiella when young get the largest balsam. One of equal size and fragrance should grace the village black smith Joe, who is delightful. Henry Hall is up to his usual standard as the convict, although he seems to have stepped straight out of "Tobacco Road" forgetting to re-touch his make up. Florence Reed is a grisly bridge, growing yearly more grisly as the morbid Miss Havisham. Her twenty year old wedding cake is such a masterpiece of Hollywood...
...When economic conditions are good Mr. Balsam continued, "new ideas sretolerated. But when men start walking the streets, and see that other men, behind prison bars, are well treated they are upset. Mr. Gill's administration has been harassed by that and by two-considerations: (1) Not only was he starting a new idea and responsible for its spirit, but he also had to build buildings as well, and be responsible for them. (2) Almost from the start, since his was a new experiment, he has had all kinds of criminals dumped on him, men who were...